Just a reminder that USA has Daylight savings time on sunday, so we lose one hour. This will make the games an hour "earlier". Make sure you are on time!

From Military Police

"Infantry Evolved seems like a fitting title as the third installment in our news series with Continuity and Reloaded, heh. I'd like to announce news that players have been keenly awaiting. Satori and I have been pushing for this for quite some time and we're now expecting the implementation of the patch very soon. It'll be great to have games characterized by equal competition again and no hacker crashes. I'd like to thank Jeff Petersen for taking time out of his schedule to work on this patch. I'm not sure if you'll see him in the game at all, but if you do, please extend to him the appreciation that he deserves. Thanks to the community for being patient."

Some teams have switched times, and other matches have been rescheduled for the following weeks.

This week's games are as follows:

7:00 Legendary vs Ubernauts
7:00 D-Generation X vs Dads
8:30 Godsend vs Legendary
10:00 etc vs Samurai Pizza Cats


EDIT** - Rare's matches were moved to the weeks that correspond w/ the date they are going to be played. The times were incorrect also, but have now been fixed.

Everyone will be watching the super bowl. Matches are slated to start next sunday (feb 14th). A schedule will be posted by Cruel shortly. The format will be the same as last season - it will start with a round robin followed by skill divisions.

We will try again next week.

The current plan is to continue the matches tonight as scheduled. As most of you know, there has been continuous issues this weekend with the infantry servers crashing due to a hacker. If the servers are not up, or are in SAM mode when the first games start at 7pm EST, we will postpone all of this week's matches. Also, if the servers do go down at some point during the matches, we will also stop play there and postpone any remaining games.

We figure this way that at least people won't have to be waiting around all night if it looks like the games will not be able to be played.

... Is canceled for the remainder of the season.

Go here to arrange/confirm matches.

Award voting is up. If you voted last night (Sunday 20th) please re-vote for Atlas award again at bottom of poll page. Nominations were msicounted.

The regular season of GBPL will start next Sunday, December 27th. I know this is close to Christmas and some people may not be able to make it. But it's only one week, so we'll see how it goes. If there are forfeits we'll allow rescheduling to a midweek game.

THIS Sunday we'll have a sort of pre-season. There are no set matches between squads because I though it was too short notice. But if you show up with your GBPL squad we'll get a match going. If not it'll just be scrims. Show up around 7:00 PM EST and we'll see what we can get going.

The updated JvO map won't be up until Monday, so we won't get to use that. You can at least see the pic here:
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/8203/gbpljvsotweaked.png

Posted by Bok'choy:

With GBPL season right around the corner, Kuja and I, with the approval of Dunebug. the 'GBPL King' have uploaded Junds vs Orions, aka: JvO, aka: GBlitz to League Test Zone. This is not to confuse people with Jokers vs Lions, aka: JvL, one of the maps in the running for season 15 IGBL. All of those who were active during the regular IGBL season (14) should still have their pemits. If you are in need of one, please message Kuja or Bok'choy in game or on the website.

JvO / Blitz Settings:
Win by 5 goals
Pub bike speeds
Pub death timer
League carry time
30 minute match timer
60 seconds start timer
Scramble at 20 seconds
5v5 format with queue (its blitz after all)
Centralized ball spawn

Special Settings:
Spawn with rep
Spawn with pd
Pub immob
League stun
League jam w/ higher velocity
Chuckers, no huckers
Extra time
Rapid bombs
Multiple octanes
Rocket rain does spawn rarely
***All specials spawn on the map, but they had there spawn rates adjusted to fit the smaller map size.

From this thread started by Dunebug:


The draft has started;

You can check it out at http://gbpl.gravball.net/draft

there's a link in the news page on http://gbpl.gravball.net

The turn order is Allustrious, Dain (Allanon), Rainer, then Papa (FUCK). It's a snake draft.

You have to be logged in to view the draft page.
And I don't think you can register during the draft... I'll have to check on that.
Accounts set to 'inactive' in the player list are not draftable.

It's gonna be a multi-day process. Pop into the live chat anytime to witness proceedings and cuss out your fellow GB'ers.

This message comes from Bok'choy:

Howdy,

Seeing as the early polls for the s15 map is up, I'd like to inform you that JvL is up in League Test Zone. Please come check it out! If you need a permit PM Kuja or myself in game or on site.

Thanks for your time,
-Bok

Congratulations to Rare who swept Hooligans (4-2, 1-0, 3-1, 3-0) in the final to win their 3rd league championship.

IGBL Season 15 will begin in early January after Christmas & New Year holidays.

After a hard fought season involving new rules, and skill division component for tougher opposition, it's all boiled down to the final match. Hooligans, last season's holders an undefeated season 13 regular season record, but who were upset by an underdog opponent in the semi-finals now find themselves in the Cinderella position: A squad who began the playoffs seeded 6th and in division II, beating 3 opponents, including undefeated "The Federer Reserve", and sporting a perfect 8-0 playoff record along the way.

Hooligans face off against Rare, recently season 10 and 12 champions who punched their ticket into the final with a close 1 goal difference game 5 victory over "etc". After a tough start, and some roster turmoil they've been playing hard to prove they still have the right stuff.

Shaping up to be a highly entertaining final, with two squads well known for their elite players with a reputation of pulling off clutch & spectacular plays.

7:00PM - BagMan Cup championship
Rare vs. Hooligans

7:00PM - Pirates' Jug final
Amateur Hour vs. Godsend

The SPC v SPC & TFR v TFR matches in schedule are placeholder, they play winner of an earlier match.

week 1 (Nov 22nd)
7:00
Amateur Hour vs. Hooligans (relegation match, best of 3)

8:30
Samurai Pizza Cats v. Winner Hool./AH (best of 5)
Reclipse v Ubernauts (best of 3)


week 2 (Dec 6th)
6:00
The Federer Reserve vs SPC or winner Hool./AH (best of 5)
loser Hool./AH v winner Recl./Uber. (best of 3)

8:30
Rare v etc (best of 5)
Godsend v X-tasy (best of 3)


Week 3 (Dec 13th)
7:00
BagMan Finals (best of 7)
BOTR finals (best of 5)

Note your match times & don't forget to predict.

As always, IGBL is in need of new referees who are willing to help give back to the community. Reffing games isn't much different from observing them. It's not a tough job and most of you are on anyways Sunday night to play your match and maybe watch one or two.

The more people that sign up, the easier it is for everyone.

PM Slick to apply!!

Rosters will be locked on Wednesday October 28th.

No more recruiting is allowed as of that date, captains can still toggle player modify status.

-If a player gains a "super jump" to enter goal zone by clipping the edge of a wall, any goal scored by means of this exploit will not count. Ref will grant ball possession to defending team using runclock rule #4 procedures.

Some people have been abusing this lately, it's an exploit plain and simple. Don't try it in league, and you shouldn't be doing it in scrims or pub either. Cheating is lame and disrespectful to everyone.

In other news, Seth resigned his council duties. He's been replaced by Cruel.

There's a little bug on the schedule where pre-season games that have been played & regular season matches are on same round even though they have different dates. Just ignore the August pre-season matches it should be cleaned up soon.

Remember to predict!

Hey guys, we're looking to hire more refs still. It's not a tough job and most of you are on anyways sunday night to play your match and maybe watch one or two.

The more people with sign up, the easier it is for everyone. Help out the league, private message Slick now to apply, and do your part to make season 14 successful.

We decided to go ahead and start preseason this week, despite being in the process of making the final decisions and final touches to the league zone. League zone settings may change later this week or next week, but we figured it was better to just start now and get this season rolling. Please schedule your matches on the public forum thread.

Please welcome Slick as the new Head Referee for IGBL. Slick has been a dedicated referee for several seasons now. His reliability and experience will be an asset to the IGBL staff at his new position.

As always, IGBL is in need of new referees who are willing to help give back to the community. Reffing games isn't much different from observing them, and doesn't require a weekly commitment. Please send all inquiries and applications to Slick via website PM.

Confirmed returning and proposed new squads may now begin recruitment:

Confirmed returning squads from season 13:
Samurai Pizza Cats
Hooligans
Rare
Godsend
Ubernauts

Proposed new entries (& captain) to season 14:
X-tasy - zyn
Amateur Hour - papa
etc - yumy
The Federer Reserve - scottocs

(New squads do not appear on squad list until they add a member)

Some possible changes for IGBL are being tested in Gravball League. There is a public forum post for full info and feedback. Hopefully people will approach this with an open mind and tell us what they think.

The council has reviewed community discussion and made some decisions on where we are going next season. There is also some things that will be tested on a trial before being voted upon for addition. See the thread on the public forum for details.

Congratulations to the winners!

Party - Ubernauts
Gravers - Seth
Jokers - rbt
Angel - Realm
Judges - Realm
Skipper - yumy
Wingman - Legacy

President's - Hooligans (77.35 avg rating)
Golden Ball - ANIMALS (46.62%)

1. Both referees and captains are responsible for taking stats at the end of a game.

2. If a player disconnects and was not in the game when stats are taken, that player's stats are typically not saved.

3. Once stats are uploaded to the IGBL website, they cannot be changed.

4. All players are expected to remain in the arena at least one minute after a game, or until the referee announces that stats are taken. (IGBL Rules - Games: 6a)



The main reason I'm posting this:
If anyone notices that a player disconnected (including/especially said player), stats should be taken again when the player returns, and saved as that player's name (i.e.: dain.txt), and sent in to either the match referee, Edd87, or myself AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Statistics are typically uploaded as quickly as possible so we don't have to do it later. The longer you wait to let someone know, the chances become exponentially higher that the player's stats will be lost forever. Please note: as soon as a referee uses the *wipe all command, it is impossible for previous stats to be saved.

Also, do not abuse this and tamper with stats if this occurs. If caught, not only will we stop allowing player sent-in stats, but other penalties may be created. It's just not worth wasting your time and ours. Thank you.

The server costs me $20 a month to host.

Please donate a little money to keep the site up and running. Donation link is on the left menu at the bottom.

Thanks,
Crimson